this time it's the drug enforcement administration will dive into what the agency is accused of doing coming up. and the supreme court ruled that california must release nearly ten thousand prisoners from its overcrowded prison system the release will come as a mass hunger strike continues in some california prisons and update on both sides of this story later on in the show. hello there it's monday august fifth four pm here in washington d.c. i'm marinate and you're watching our two. new reports over the weekend from the guardian show that house members looking for more information about vice accords were turned down by the house intelligence committee repeatedly now according to these reports the house intel committee also considered censuring congressman alan grayson of florida for distributing guardian reports of n.s.a. slides now this is information that's already published in major international newspapers now to house members representative morgan griffith of virginia and representative alan grayson repeatedly requested information about the n.s.a. from the house intelligence c

agency is not the only government agency with an advanced secret surveillance program the drug enforcement administration has a secret unit of its own which passes intelligence intercepts wiretaps and telephone records to authorities in the u.s. and this information is then used to launch criminal investigations on americans and foreign citizens as well now the department of justice announced that it will begin investigations into the d.a.'s surveillance tactics here's a refresher about those d.n.a. revelations reuters detailed how these special operative division the name for the secret surveillance you know within the da works. that report said quote documents show that federal drug agents are trained to recreate the investigative trail to conceal the s.o.g. use involvement defense attorneys former prosecutors and judges say the practice circumvents court procedures for weighing whether sensitive classified or face evidence could be disclosed to a defendant now although such cases rarely involve national security issues the dea agents using the tips are trying to recreate the source of the criminal inv

. >>> now a horrifying mistake that forced the drug enforcement administration to settle a lawsuit for $4 million. they locked up an american college student in san diego and then forgot about him for five days. cnn's brian todd has more on how he survived and what led to him being detained in the first place. >> reporter: left for four and a half days in a windowless cell. no food or water the entire time. no one even checked on him. he was never formally arrested or charged. this didn't happen in a lawless, developing country. it happened in san diego. to an american college student daniel chong. >> i did go crazy. >> reporter: he just reached a $4.1 million settlement with the u.s. government. the nightmare began on april 21st of last year. he was visiting a friend at a house in the san diego area when agents of the drug enforcement administration burst in. they seized thousands of ecstasy pills, drugs and guns. chong admitted he'd smoked pot there and knew nothing of the other contraband. taking him to a holding cell -- they said they wouldn't charge you. what else? >> they'll come

drug enforcement administration. dea agents are using intelligence gathered by the nsa to investigate americans and then being order to cover it up. all of that and more coming up. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. jeff bezos is buying the washington post, one of the leading newspapers in the country. the amazon.com founder and chief executive is one of the wealthiest people in the united states. he will pay $250 million for the post and a number of , less than one percent of his wealth, which is estimated at more than 28 billion dollars. he is a friend of donald graham, chief effective of the washington post company, whose family has owned the newspaper for eight decades. over the past the gate, the companies newspaper division a seen a 44% drop in operating revenue. in addition, he will get another -- a number of other washington post owned businesses. the deal does not include slate.com or foreign-policy magazine, which are own by the parent company that also owns

women head up six of the nation's biggest jobs, including the drug enforcement administration, secretervice, and the fbi's washington field office. >>> and in the l.a. times, feinstein and durbin, how to close gitmo. the two high ranking senators write an op-ed saying it's not america's military that's failed, it's our policy makers. >>> topping our news, breaking news in alabama to update you on, a large cargo plane crashing just an hour ago while on approach to the birmingham airport. wvtm reporting the plane is burning after two explosions. it was coming from louisville, kentucky. no explanation how many were onboard the air bus plane or if there were any injuries. >>> also, benefits are dividing the town of yarnell, arizona, where 19 hotshot firefighters were killed battling a june wildfire. because of 13 of them were considered temporary employees, their families are not entitled to full survivors benefits. the difference lies in families getting health insurance and increased life insurance payment and the men's annual salaries. >>> a 12-year-old florida boy is fighting for his

drug enforcement agent enrique camarena. the release caught u.s. officials by surprise. they heard about it from the mexican media. chief of operations for the drug enforcement administration, james capra. how could this drug lord be released from prison without the united states knowing? >> we are extremely disappointed and more than that, we are angry. we are mad. this is personal. never did we think that this was going to happen. >> reporter: known as the godfather of mexican drug cartels, caro quintero is on d.e.a.'s most-wanted list. the agency says while in prison he continued to work with the sinaloa cartel-- the largest in mexico-- and laundered drug money. agent camarena was working undercover when he exposed caro quintero's massive marijuana operation. the bust is said to have cost caro quintero and his associates $8 billion in lost sales. caro quintero ordered camarena's kidnapping. his body, showing evidence of torture, was found a month later in a shallow grave. >> we want him caught now. right now we want him caught. he has no right to be walking free anywhere, not in mexico, not in any place in the united states. >> reporter: one u.s. official told me federa

this time it's the drug enforcement administration will dive into what the agency is accused of doing coming up. and the supreme court ruled that california. must release nearly ten thousand prisoners from its overcrowded prison system the release will come as a mass hunger strike continues in some california prisons and update on both sides of this story later on in the show.

this time it's the drug enforcement administration will dive into what the agency is accused of doing coming up. and the supreme court ruled that california must release nearly ten thousand prisoners from its overcrowded prison system the release will come as a mass hunger strike continues in some california prisons and update on both stories later on in the show.

voicemail play >>"good morning - -- this is officer paul anderson i'm a special agent of the drug enforcement administration and we're giving you a call this morning in regards to an open and on-going criminal investigation we need to ask you a few questions about. contact us immediately at the dea headquarters at "415-251- 8119" special agent anderson with the dea narcotics unit division 38" >> reporter:worried that it was real. rebecca called the number. 32-23- >> reporter:"they said they had a warrant for my arrest for purchasing pharmaceuticals online and that if i didn't pay a fee they would come and arrest me". >> reporter:the person who claimed he was special agent paul anderson from division 38 of the dea made it clear. wire him money and he would make this arrest warrant go away otherwise she was going to >> was so scared" >> reporter:she reached out to me for >> reporter:i visited with bruce goldberg assistant to the special agent in charge, dea, san francisco field division. and played him the voicemail rebecca received. >>5-54 bruce e. goldberg, assistant to the special "we have no division 38,

second, there is also a story about the dea, drug enforcement administration using the information from. i may be willing to sacrifice a little of my privacy to prevent a 9/11 that killed 3,000 people. but to contribute to a drug war that we are losing anyway is a problematic endeavor in the first place and is deeply corrupt is not something i would want to do. >> let me explain that. the dea, the story is that they essentially get tips about this, about go-to, pull over this car at this place and they don't say where that information came from. is that a major problem? >> it is a very major problem especially in light of the fact that the irs manual reflects that dea agents were told and hence irs agents not to reveal to federal prosecutors the true source of the information. >> so when you hear law enforcement say this is going on for a long time what do you say? >> they have been breaking the law for a long time. when a federal agent lies to an investigation that is a felony. and this could actually end up an enormous pandora's box for the administration. they have a lot of convictio

combine that with news the irs was altering details of investigations done by the drug enforcement administrationand my next guess says american civil liberties are under attack. seems like every other day there's a new development in the nsa, the snooping, the violation of the fourth amendment. talk to us about this new one where the nsa admits if an e-mail sent to and from, they're going look into the e-mail text, the text of the messages. >> looking at the text, looking at the met -- metta data. the obama administration released an internal report saying hundreds of millions of americans have had their stuff looked through and the foreign intelligence surveillance court toll the nsa to knock it off or they were violating things too regularly. to have obama in that next week say, oh, there's no domestic spying program, it shows not just his own kind of problem with voracity, these people operated without any control for so long, they feel they can stare in your eye and just lie to you, straight up. james clapper did it, the director of national intelligence. obama did it on jay leno. >> listen

holder, peter van singer, former evidence the drug enforcement administration who joins us from chicago you know, this is what the left is putting out there, that we are a punitive society and unjustly putting a lot of people in prison for too long for quote, unquote, nonviolent crimes. and you say? >> and i say that the attorney general is wrong on the facts. in fact, the 1979, when i was administrator of dea, 25.4 million people who are using illegal drug at least once a month. the last reported period, 2011, that number was 22.5 million. users of illegal drugs and our population, bill, went from 225 million to 305. instead of 11% of the. legs, using illegal drugs, we are down to about 8%. too many, but that's a 30% decrease. that's success. >> saying that because of a lot of education. enforcement and increased awareness. i think ronald reagan's parent group movement. clearly, certainty of punishment, which the attorney general in san francisco moved away from is also a factor. >> bill: okay, now, the crux of the matter is that holder and the left believe i bet you do, too. explain w

drug enforcement administration spies on americans, essentially kind of oversees or at least who areing with people over seas. they do it all sorts of ways. here is what you might not know. they take the information and then they pass it along. they funnel it to the irs, to the nsa, and to other agencies so that those other agencies here can actually launch their own criminal investigations. all of this is from a reuters report release this had week. the report says the dea is then instruct the folks, its own agents to lie, lie about where that original information came from. the practice is now under investigation by the justice department and what about those who have been prosecuted as a result of the origination of this data that was cleared away? wiped away, parallel construction they call it, is it possible that people could be set free from prison if the root of the investigation is deemed to be illegal? our cnn legal correspondent jean casarez is the perfect person to ask this. i think it may have even been you that explained to me what fruit of the poisonous tree means. does

but the dea revealed, the drug enforcement administration, it has received it.y have actually started criminal investigations based on information seized pursuant to spying power. absolutely prohibited, not only by the fourth amendment but by the statute that creates the spying power which says it can only be used to combat terrorism, not other crimes, because it's easier for them to start a prosecution based upon secretly recorded phone calls. >> sounds like what you're saying is this government of ours went out and tried to prosecute people for leaking, and this government, the nsa, is leaking itself. >> correct. lisp. the government is prosecuting edward snowden saying he committed espionage by leaking but official ted nsa are leaking, boasting about the bad people caught, that's leaking by identifying the case. boasting they are the ones who chaptered the chatter in yemen that caused the president to close the embassies in the arabian peninsula. doesn't make sense why they have to spy on 300 million americans in order to catch some al qaeda people in yemen t

. >> police say they are looking for more suspects and once the drug enforcement administration and theattorney's office to review the case for possible federal charges as well. reporting live in san francisco, david steenson, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> the san francisco man killed sunday when the driver of a party bus crashed on interstate 280 has been identified. the santa lara attorney's office says 38-year-old was the only passenger in the party bus when it veered off the freeway and into a tree. the driver, 43-year-old of daily city was arrested for drunken driving, manslaughter and hit and run. he's being held at the santa clara county jail without bail. >>> a double homicide that took place in oakland five months ago may be linked to the theft of a giant possiblehead. 28-year-old garcia and 34-year- old ford were killed during a home invasion robbery near apricot and glen nonstreet. it happened during a house party. well, today prosecutors charged three men with the killing. they say the gunmen robbed eight people including at least one of the people killed. they say the gunman to

drug enforcement administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps,ormants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of americans." glenn greenwald, can you talk more about this? >> this should be a huge scandal for the following reason. the essence of the constitution is the government cannot obtain evidence or information about you unless it has probable cause to believe you have engaged in a crime and then goes to court to get a warrant. and only then is that evidence usable in a prosecution against you. with this secret agency -- what the secret agency is doing according to reuters is circumventing that process by gathering all kinds of information without any court supervision, without any oversight at all. use surveillance technologies and other forms of domestic spying. ,hen he gets this information it knows that information can be courtn a criminal because it is outside the legal process so they cover-up how they really got it and pretend -- they make it seem as tho

according to an exclusive report by reuters, the dea, drug enforcement administration in this country directing agents to cover-up investigations of american citizens. i will repeat that. the dea is asking their agents to cover up some of the work they've done while they've been investigating americans. fellow americans. reuters says this is a secret program that it has nothing 20 do with social security like the terrorism and everything you've been hearing about before by the nsa carried out by special operations division. that's sob for short. reuters says it includes two dozen agencies including the fbi, the cia, the nsa, the irs, and the department of homeland security. reuters also says that the s.o.d. funnels information from intel intercepts like wiretap, iran formants. this massive database of telephone records and they funnel that stuff to officials right across the country. some of the legal experts are saying this a program that violates any defendant's constitutional right to a fair trial. but look, we lie all the time and it's legal to lie when you're trying to solve crim

this time it's the drug enforcement administration will dive into what the agency is accused of doing coming up. and the supreme court ruled that california must release nearly ten thousand prisoners from its overcrowded prison system the release will come as a mass hunger strike continues in some california prisons and update on both sides of the story later on in the show.

during the past five years, seizures of heroins in the united states by the drug enforcement administrationave gone up more than 50% while the number of heroin users in america has skyrocketed. up a staggering 75%. for parents out there, here is the scary part. >> the most rapid growth is is occurring among those under age 21. that's the fastest-growing group. >> reporter: is it in isolated areas around the country or is this nationwide? >> it's nationwide. it's occurring primarily outside of the central city in the suburbs and in rural areas. >> reporter: middle-class america. >> middle-class america, affluent america. >> reporter: and the reason cane-willis says, has to do with another more high-profile epidemic that has been spreading among affluent teens. >> people start using prescription pain pills. when those are difficult to ge, they switch to heroin. >> reporter: prescription drug use among kids has gotten a lot of attention. for good reason. a recent survey shows 24% of high school students -- that's more than five million kids -- have abused highly addictive medications like oxyc

it has been moved towards the drug enforcement administration and whoever else next?ion. judge napolitano: i have known you to be one of the most intelligent and thoughtful people on television, gratifying to hear your mind has been changed, you educate me and financial matters all the team, this is not my opinion, this is not stated fact. when reuters discovered in a manual for irs agents prepared by the justice department, if they commenced criminal tax fraud investigation based on raw data given them by the nsa they were not to reveal it came from the nsa even if they had to be deceptive. when you are prosecuting someone, don't tell the federal prosecutors this came from the nsa, lie if necessary. when federal agents lie to other federal agents or lie to federal prosecutors they commit a felony and potentially corrupt the prosecution because the confrontation clause in the constitution guarantees the defendant and the defendant's lawyers the right to see the government's file and confront all the evidence, and all the witnesses against the defendant. stuart: the pr

voicemail play >>"good morning - -- this is officer paul anderson i'm a special agent of the drug enforcement administrationiving you a call this morning in regards to an open and on-going criminal investigation we need to ask you a few questions about. contact us immediately at the dea headquarters at "415-251- 8119" special agent anderson with the dea narcotics unit division 38" >> reporter:worried that it was real. rebecca called the number. "they said they had a warrant for my arrest for purchasing pharmaceuticals online and that if i didn't pay a fee they would come and arrest me". >> reporter:the person who claimed he was special agent paul anderson from division 38 of the dea made it clear. wire him money and he would make this arrest warrant go away otherwise she was going to jail >>rebecca >>"i didn't know what to do. i was so scared" >> reporter:she reached out to me for help. >> reporter:i visited with bruce goldberg assistant to the special agent in charge, dea, san francisco field division. and played him the voicemail rebecca received. goldberg, assistant to the special agent in charge. >>"we

right now, look at the drug enforcement administration. we will show you as much of this as we can until our live program starts at 1:30. host: joining us now is john shiffman and has had a series of stories looking at intelligence gathered taking place within the drug enforcement agency. tell us about this program. what did you discover? guest: i worked with my colleague and we found the dea program that has been public for many years called the special operations division located in virginia. but a lot of what they do is public and coordinating international cases like the case against the russian arms broker, they also had a part of special operations that they did not publicize at all. they take tips from intelligence agencies, from informants, foreign governments, domestic wiretaps, and a large database which is different than they nsa record and that pass them along to agents in the field. while this is perfectly acceptable, probably acceptable, to pass along the tips, what happens next raises questions. the agency has been instructe

been leaking raw data that it obtains from the phone calls and from the e-mails to the drug enforcement administrationdrug enforcement ad mings and other law enforcement groups in washington use the data to institute to initiate criminal prosecutions. now, you say, well, so what, bad guys deserve to be caught. we have a fourth amendment to prevent the use of a dragnet to catch spies as a basis to start criminal prosecutions and to make it even worse, we now know that in a manual prepared for irs agents, they were told that if their information came from the nsa, and they were put under oath as to where they got the information from, they were to lie about it. dagen: right. >> and claim it came from somewhere else. this is extremely disturbing if any of the lies took place in cases where the defendants have been convicted. guess what, defendants are now entitled to a new trial. dagen: doesn't congress, though, have the power to stop this? >> yes and no. congress can put a stop to it by reducing the budget or giving a budget and say what to do with the money and what they cannot do. libertarian republic

drug enforcement administration is sending a massive telephone log to help launch criminal investigationsor more i would refer you to the department of justice. >> there was an awful film of chris hayes was showing of storm troopers breaking into someone's house because he was selling marijuana, and they shot the dogs, and didn't even have the decency to kill it, it was screaming in pain in front of the kids over some pot. >> stephanie: yeah. charlie wrote some great stuff on the war on drugs. the whole war-on concept in general -- >> war on americans. >> stephanie: all of these cases rarely involve national security issues. law enforcement agents have been directs to conceal how such cases begin. the documents show that federal agents are showed to recreate the investigative trail. a practice that some experts say violates a defendant's right to a fair trial. if defendant's don't know how an investigation began, they cannot ask for evidence. some legal experts said the program sounds more troubling. the nsa's efforts are geared to stopping terrorists, and the dea is targeting drug dealer

. >> but the reality is, is that obama's drug control budget looks like the bush administration's. the ratio in funding vested in enforcement as opposed to prevention or drug treatment is about the same as the bush administration's. >> in the last couple of decades the prison population across the united states has risen dramatically. we just passed three prisons seemingly right next to each other. we're about to visit one of those facilities where many of the inmates are from the city of baltimore. america incarcerates more people than any other country on earth. one in every one hundred us citizens is behind bars. the state of maryland is no exception - the prisons here are full. how's it going? sebastian walker for al jazeera. >> nice to meet you. >> i'm here at the roxbury correctional institution to meet dominique stevenson. she helped start a prisoner-led program called "friend of a friend." it teaches long-term prisoners how to mentor younger inmates coming in with shorter sentences. >> the fact that there is no economic development, there are no jobs, and that leads to the despair that you're talking about. and so y

according to a report this week, the dea, drug enforcement administration, routinely gets top secreta judge. then it cooks up a new back story to cover up its source. fox news analyst peter johnson, jr. is here to discuss. >> you are my good friend. this is everything that you've been saying for years and you've written about, it's coming true. this is a shredding of the 4th amendment. what the dea is saying, we've gotten tips from the nsa, the national security agency, based on really illegal taps and surveillance and we said, we're giving it to them. they use that, but don't say where they got the information from and allegedly go get americans or bad guys. so they get a tip. they don't say where it came from. they use a ruse or trick to say oh, yeah, we just happened to know that these folks were going to be here. they lock the people up, put them in jail and it's all coming from nsa surveillance. >> andrew: so the nsa illegally spying on innocent americans, if it hears -- >> or sometimes criminal americans. >> andrew: or sometimes criminal americans. not necessarily terrorists. t

drug. the nixon administration adopted the idea. again, this is not something law enforcement was to many. and it ends up passing congress. there were two bills actually. two interesting things that happen in d.c. the police chief jerry wilson decides not to use it. he says it's too invasive, too militaristic and it's ineffective. he takes it out of the metro police manual and tells his office not to conduct these raids. crime was down the next years what goes up and the rest of the country. clearly it didn't hurt things in d.c., not using it. they didn't make things worse. nationally though the federal officers, federal narcotics officers started conducting these raids across the country. this was accounted by a lot of rhetoric from the nixon administration, dehumanizing drug offenders, really using martial rhetoric and went to declare all-out war. you see this sort of out of control my products officers raiding houses, conducting raids without warrants, warrants on the wrong houses. so of these raids then get news coverage of the new york times and ap does investigate and fi

the administration has made it clear going back in time that there are disparities in terms of how the drug laws are being enforcedand more particularly how the sentencing is playing out. i mean, we've seen the statistics over and over again. a disproportionate number of african-americans and hispanics, crack cocaine, marijuana, all the drugs. young whites? no. you've seen that. in 2010, equalized crack cocaine versus powder cocaine in terms of the sentencing on that. so there were hints all along from the obama administration and attorney general eric holder they were going to make some changes. i think it will play very well because it really is, when you strip everything away, it's an issue as the attorney general said, an issue of fairness. i think this, certainly, many people are mindful of. >> so you say there have been hinting placed all along from the administration or from the a.g. should people not be scratching their head with the question of why is the attorney general doing this now? >> no, no. because going back three years, essentially when they gave a mandate to congress, the obama administration a

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drug traffickers remains an important priority, the president and the administration believe that targeting individual marijuana users, especially those with serious elnesss and their caregivers" is not the best allocation of law enforcement resources. >> if you are an adult who enjoys a good beer there is a similar product you might want to know about. one without the calories and the serious health problems. it is less toxic so it doesn't cause hangoversovers and overdose deaths and not linked to violence or reckless behavior. marijuana, less harmful than alcohol and designed to be that way. >> coming at us from the white house as you just heard the feds said they would no longer prosecute small amounts of pot, the spoof beer ad seen at the indianapolis speedway caused quite a stir. they made the ad that aired at nascar and mason joins us from colorado. in gainesville, florida we are joined by dr. scott titlebomb, a spokesman for the drug free america foundation. mason, how did you get the idea to air the ad at nascar of all places? >> well, you know, this is an important message that marijuana is less harmful than alcohol. a race like nascar is a great place to get that message out. it is obviously a place where the pe

drug traffickers remains an important priority, the president and the administration believe targeting individual marijuana users, especially those with serious illnesses and their care givers, is not the best allocation of federal law enforcement resources. >> that just in from the president when it comes to medical marijuana. question asked by jessica yellin. >>> coming up, we're going to talk about these pictures getting a lot of buzz as well. have you seen in what do you think? we're going to have that discussion, next. the great outdoors... ...and a great deal. grrrr ahhh let's leave the deals to hotels.com. oh my gosh this is so cool... awesome! perfect! save up to 30% plus an extra 12% off with coupon... now until labor day. only at hotels.com i just served my mother-in-law your chicken noodle soup but she loved it so much... i told her it was homemade. everyone tells a little white lie now and then. but now she wants my recipe [ clears his throat ] [ softly ] she's right behind me isn't she? [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup. see, i knew testosterone could affect sex drive, but not energy or even my mood. that's when i talked with my doctor. he gave me some blood tests... showed it was low t. that'

drug traffickers remains an important priority, the president and the administration believe that targeting individual marijuana users, especially those with serious illnesses and their caregivers is not the best allocation of federal law enforcement. but at this time, the president does not advocate a change in the law. >> that little phrase, at this point, has given much hope to people on the internet, hoping that the president evolves much the same way he evolved on gay marriage. the tax equity act is a more targeted and undeniable fair bill, it provides the right to use standard business tax deductions for marijuana businesses in those states where those businesses are legal. california's legal medical marijuana dispensaries, for example, file tax returns just like all other businesses. but on their federal tax returns, the irs does not allow them any business deductions on the grounds that they are drug trafficking organizations. the small business tax equity act would simply allow medical marijuana dispensaries and other legal marijuana businesses to deduct normal business expenses, rent, things like that, on their federal tax returns, just like every other small businesses in america. if republican rhetoric about fair taxat

drug traffickers remains an important priority, the president and the administration believed that targeting individual marijuana users, especially those with serious illnesses and their care givers, is not the best allocation of federal law enforcement resources. the president last talked about this interview he had with barbara walters in december when she asked in a similar question. the president acknowledged that the priority, in terms of the dedication of law enforcement resources, should be targeted toward drug kingpins, traffickers, and others who perpetrate violence in the conduct of the drug trade. but that is the best use of our law enforcement resources. but at the same time, the president has not advocated a change in the law. >> is he willing to take steps to make it easier to conduct research on marijuana's medical benefits? >> i'm not sure what changes could be implemented into the law to have an impact on marijuana research. >> [indiscernible] >> for some reason, i have the sneaking suspicion that this will draw me all kinds of traffic on twitter. [laughter] now.predicting that maybe i will have an update for you later. >> there are fires burning in 11 states across the nation, in backing thousands of acres. thousand